Example sentences of "is not [adj] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with these environmental improvements , for the policy to succeed it must attract residents of all socio-economic groups — and there is not much that governments can do about this . |
| 2 | The Japanese tax office is not convinced that paintings can be treated like stocks and shares . |
| 3 | We can not at the moment reconstruct with certainty what the ordering of relevant environments in EModE might have been , or whether it was always nasals that were decisive : as Lowland Scots preserves evidence of a raising rule before dentals/alveolars ( for example in glad , gather , Saturday ) , it is not impossible that hendes , bend attest to pre-dental raisings . |
| 4 | It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one , and utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers , and may be changed according to the diversities of countries , times , and men 's manners , so that nothing be ordained against God 's Word . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) It is not necessary that shareholders use the form of proxy despatched to them ; any proxy in proper form may be used . |
| 6 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 7 | Exposed to elderly people who are in a state of acute or chronic physical illness , mental incapacity and increasing dependence , it is not surprising that nurses believe all elderly people experience the same decline . ’ |
| 8 | Given movie trends , it is not surprising that women tend to win their Oscars in their late twenties , men in their early forties . |
| 9 | In some cases , there might be reasonable grounds for the objection ; for instance , German — in has traditionally been used to denote the wife of the man with the title , and it is not surprising that women who hold positions in their own right prefer to make that clear . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising that women turn to their close relatives . |
| 11 | In the centuries where children were treated like Oliver Twist and worse ; where children were beaten , half-starved , and put to work for sixteen hours a day and more ; it is not surprising that horses were treated no better . |
| 12 | So it is not surprising that efforts have been made to apply New Critical methods to prose fiction . |
| 13 | Thus it is not surprising that responses to the questionnaire were varied in quality and range of answers . |
| 14 | Given the doubts and uncertainties surrounding this area of law , it is not surprising that doctors may feel insecure in adopting a course of conduct which they otherwise may feel to be the most desirable . |
| 15 | It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind . |
| 16 | Accepting that the two maps are drawn from entirely different methods and to some extent a different data base of wells it is not surprising that differences in detail are recognised . |
| 17 | In these circumstances it is not surprising that businessmen are hesitant to commit resources to forge new relationships in Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | In an era of sponsorship , personal endorsement and a volatile transfer market , it is not surprising that footballers — some of whom are incapable of managing their own toilet-bag — should turn to specialist agents . |
| 19 | Pension schemes are already notoriously complicated , so it is not surprising that lawyers have turned to the actuarial profession to establish valuations of the pension benefits in divorce cases . |
| 20 | Given the marked difference between non-enrollers and migrants in regarding financial considerations , it is not surprising that non-enrollers were more likely to want more financial support and financial advice . |
| 21 | It is not surprising that historians have frequently sought to link the growth of the economy directly to it . |
| 22 | Since CRP is induced in response to cytokines , it is not surprising that estimations of cytokines themselves may provide an even earlier clue to detecting and measuring the acute phase response . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that rationalizations are often made about why delegation is impossible when the true reason lies mainly within oneself . |
| 24 | Murimuth recorded that Edward returned south with grief and without honour , and it is not surprising that rumours of treachery were rife . |
| 25 | Given the inclusion of so many considerations , it is not surprising that standards may be amended from time to time : for example , standards may be made more stringent if new scientific research reveals a lower threshold of effect than was previously believed to exist . |
| 26 | ( It is not surprising that workshops with large numbers of staff from a single school are much more ticklish in this respect , though the long-term gains can also be more dramatic . ) |
| 27 | Because there is always uncertainty about the direction of future change , it is not surprising that competitors with different resources and different perspectives take different gambles about what the best position will be in the next round of competition . |
| 28 | Given the existence of demonstration effects , it is not surprising that households with relatively high incomes have lower apc 's and households with relatively low incomes have high apc 's . |
| 29 | Given the costs to the individual voter of acquiring this kind of information , it is not surprising that intermediaries have emerged . |
| 30 | Given the nature of these failures , and their reasonably clear association with audited accounting information , it is not surprising that auditors become legally implicated . |